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Proposals are invited for papers for an interdisciplinary study day to beheld at Chawton House Library on the 11th of March 2006. Chawton House isan Elizabethan Manor that once belonged to Jane Austen's brother, andopened in July 2003 as a Centre for the Study of Early English Women'sWriting, 1600 - 1830. The event is jointly organised by Chawton HouseLibrary, the University of Southampton English Department, and the project"The International Reception of Women's Writing" (Research Institute forHistory and Cultures of Utrecht University, The Netherlands).

Claremont Graduate University is sponsoring its seventh interdisciplinary Early Modern Studies Graduate Symposium, to be held in Claremont, CA, on Saturday, March 26. This year's theme is "Transforming Textualities: The Evolution of Early Modern Texts from Caxton's Morte Darthur to Branagh's Hamlet." We are accepting abstracts for papers from graduate students that deal with any aspect of early modern textual history, book history/print culture, later reworkings of early modern texts, such as T.H. White's Once and Future King, or representations of texts in other media, including but not limited to art, music, drama, and film. We are especially interested in papers and/or panels that take a transdisciplinary approach to early modern studies.

UPDATE: Extended Deadline for CFP! Many thanks to those of you who've alreadysubmitted; due to popular demand, all proposals to the UCSB "Straws in theWind" Condference are now due by OCTOBER 15th (see below for submissiondetails).

The Early Modern Center at UCSB invites paper proposals for "Straws in theWind: Ballads and Broadsides, 1500-1800," an interdisciplinary conference tobe held at UC Santa Barbara on February 24 and 25, 2006.

The Early Modern Interdisciplinary Group of the Graduate Center, City University of NY, invites proposals for papers for its second annual conference. This conference, Secrets and Lies, will be held on April 28th, 2006 in New York City. We encourage scholars of all disciplines to submit papers related to the period inclusive of the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries, and we especially welcome papers with an interdisciplinary methodology. This conference will focus on dissonances between private and public selves as represented in texts and other cultural productions of the early modern era. Possible topics for papers include, but are not limited to:

Crossing the Line Between Public and Private in Early Modern England. I am inviting papers for a panel on issues of privacy in Early Modern England for the Cultural Studies Conference at Kansas State University in Manhattan, KS March 9-11, 2006. The topic is broad and may include (but is not limited to) issues such as: the private/public nature of coterie literature, government surveillance and the limits of personal privacy, public performances of private concerns, the inversion of private and public in royal spectacle, and private writing in a public setting. E-mail a 200-word abstract and a brief bio by October 24 to Kimball Smith, Department of English, Kansas State University at dksmith_at_ksu.edu

Prof. Philip Tew (University of Northampton) and Steve Barfield =(Universityof Westminster) are commissioning editors for an innovative new series =for amajor international publisher, Continuum International.

The College English Association invites proposals for papers or panels on =Renaissance Literature for the CEA's 37th National Conference in San =Antonio, April 6-8, 2006. Although this year's theme is regionalism, we =welcome papers on any aspect of Renaissance Literature. Please send the =following information to Prof. Alan Nordstrom (anordstrom_at_rollins.edu):=20- Name- Institutional Affiliation (if applicable)- Mailing Address- Phone Number- Email Address- Title for proposed presentation- Abstract of no more than 500 words- A-V equipment, if any- Special needs, if any